Except when people forget to add the women to the family. I have added lots of women to Wikidata and then I have to go through all of the family relationships - I wish I could just say someone is a sister of someone and be done with it, but no, if they are a child, mother, aunt or cousin as well then I have to go track down all of those relationships separately.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > <grin> the English word sibling is good enough.. </grin> because of the > gender of a person we would know if it is a brother or a sister... When we > know a parent, we implicitly know this already through child.. Consequently > in many occassions we do not need to register brother or sister at all. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 20 August 2015 at 15:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Andrew Gray, 17/08/2015 13:29: >> >>> In some ways, merging seems more elegant. We do have fairly good >>> gender metadata (and getting better all the time!), so we can still do >>> gender-specific relationship searches where needed. It also avoids >>> having to force a binary gender approach - we are in the odd position >>> of being able to give a nuanced entry in P21 but can only say if >>> someone is a "sister" or "brother". >>> >> >> I think this is quite important. I think properties should focus on one >> thing at a time and there is no need to state both gender and family >> relationship in the same statement. >> >> Also, are we really sure we don't currently have linguistic issues? I bet >> there is at least one language in the world where "sister" and "brother" >> are not two distinct words. >> >> Nemo >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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